EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
The European Research Council has announced the winners of its advanced grants in interdisciplinary research; 13 per cent of the call was set aside for this area. The awards are worth up to EUR2.5 million (£1.95 million), but can rise to EUR3.5 million in exceptional circumstances. The nine UK-based researchers, from a total of 29 winners, are listed below. Details of award winners in physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities and life sciences have already been published.
Award winner: Don Brothwell
Institution: University of York
Interred with their bones: linking soil micromorphology and chemistry to unlock the hidden archive of archaeological human burials
Award winner: Mark Chaplain
Institution: University of Dundee
From Mutations to Metastases: Multiscale Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Growth and Spread
Award winner: Helen Gilbert
Institution: Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London
Indigeneity in the contemporary world: performance, politics and belonging (see story, left)
Award winner: Xianggian Jiang
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Fundaments and principles for measurement and characterisation of 21st-century science and engineering surfaces
Award winner: Jane Langdale
Institution: University of Oxford
Evolution of development in plants
Award winner: William Marslen-Wilson
Institution: Medical Research Council
Neurocognitive systems for morpho-lexical analysis: the cross-linguistic foundations for language comprehension
Award winner: Efstratios Pistikopoulos
Institution: Imperial College London
Modelling, optimisation and control of biomedical systems
Award winner: Kevin Shakesheff
Institution: University of Nottingham
MASC: materials that impose architecture within stem-cell populations
Award winner: Jan Zielonka
Institution: University of Oxford
Media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: qualities of democracy, qualities of media
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Award winner: Douglas Nixon
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Immunological targeting of APOBEC proteins in HIV
Award winner: Barry Peters
Institution: King's College London
Determining the potential role of tolerance as a novel HIV vaccine strategy
Award winner: Abraham Pinter
Institution: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Curing HIV infection by unmasking conserved neutralisation sites
Award winner: Alfred Roca
Institution: University of Illinois
Genetic resistance to HIV in human African forest populations
Award winner: Jord Stam
Institution: Utrecht University
Removal of HIV by targeted stimulation of cellular uptake
Award winner: Jinhua Xiang
Institution: University of Iowa
Antibodies to GB virus C envelope glycoprotein E2 delay HIV disease progression
Award winner: Amelia Crampin
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Investigating the persistence of infection with M. tuberculosis
Award winner: Sarah Fortune
Institution: Harvard University
Chromatin condensation: the master switch for latency
Award winner: Kim Lewis
Institution: Northeastern University
Targeted capture of latent M. tuberculosis cells from a mammalian host
Award winner: Carl Nathan
Institution: Cornell University
Senescent and rejuvenated Mtb subsets on exit from latency
Award winner: Matyas Sandor
Institution: University of Wisconsin
Granuloma grafting: a new model for mycobacterial latency and reactivation
Award winner: Dmitry Shayakhmetov
Institution: University of Washington
Interruption of latency and in vivo adenovirus-mediated elimination of macrophages infected with M. tuberculosis
Award winner: Jay Solnick
Institution: University of California, Davis
Prevention of active tuberculosis by infection with Helicobacter pylori
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Principal investigator: Hugh Coe
Institution: University of Manchester in collaboration with the universities of Reading and Leeds
Value: £3 million
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study UK: an investigation into how cloud formations over the Pacific are affecting worldwide climate conditions.